SSD Speed from HyperX

johnc24 · 10-01-2012 6:21pm #1

Hi all

I got my HyperX Kingston SSD drive today.

The box says speeds of READ 525MB/S and WRITE 480MB/S to be expected.

These figures are rarely spot on I accept.

I ran tests using Tune HD to check the read speed (unable to complete Write speed test for some reason)

Average results were 150 MB/S....I enabled AHCI in BIOS before doing a clean install of W7.

anyone any ideas what may be going wrong in my setup - I am not familiar with controllers etc....

thanks a million

Serephucus · 10-01-2012 6:38pm

Are you sure it's plugged into a SATA3 port?

johnc24 · 10-01-2012 6:58pm

Serephucus wrote: »

Are you sure it's plugged into a SATA3 port?

Sorry I forgot to mention that piece of information.

I have a P55GD65 - I think it's Sata 2.0 only

With that in mind would the 150 be about right on Sata 2. Sata 3 will require me to invest in a new mobo right?

Serephucus · 10-01-2012 7:02pm

150MB/s is actually low even for SATA2. I'd expect upwards of 200MB/s.

Anyway, yeah, your board is SATA2 only, but you wouldn't necessarily have to invest in a new motherboard - you could pick up something like this instead.

johnc24 · 10-01-2012 7:15pm

Serephucus wrote: »

150MB/s is actually low even for SATA2. I'd expect upwards of 200MB/s.

Anyway, yeah, your board is SATA2 only, but you wouldn't necessarily have to invest in a new motherboard - you could pick up something like this instead.

Even though I could pick up that PCI adapter and I probably will, what do you think could be causing the low speed with the SATA 2?

Any adjustments that are normally made when installing SSD's perhaps that I do not know about.

Serephucus · 10-01-2012 7:33pm

I just popped mine in, installed Windows (In IDE mode, no less), and disabled hibernation, system restore, etc. Oh, did you disable drive indexing? That might have been accessing the drive at the same time.

Have you run the benchmark more than once? Is it consistent?

The site is down at the moment, but this is a handy little SSD tweaking guide that I used bits of.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?63273-*-Windows-7-Ultimate-Tweaks-amp-Utilities-*

Unregistered. · 10-01-2012 10:10pm

Serephucus wrote: »

150MB/s is actually low even for SATA2. I'd expect upwards of 200MB/s.

Up to around 275ish if the read speeds are in excess of 300 MB/s on SATA3. Speaking from experience.

Monotype · 10-01-2012 10:44pm

HD tune is designed for HDDs. Maybe try a few different ones to see what you get.
Atto and AS SSD are usually pretty reliable.

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1749/ATTO%20Disk%20Benchmark%20v2.46.html
http://downloads.guru3d.com/AS-SSD-Benchmark-download-2569.html

Tea_Bag · 11-01-2012 11:42am

HD tune didn't give great results on mine either. ATTO works a treat though.

also, what's Kingston's garbage collection like? if its anything like Intel's, which is extremely aggressive, it will fudge benchmarking quite a bit. you've to do several before you see consistently high results.

johnc24 · 11-01-2012 3:09pm

Tea_Bag wrote: »

also, what's Kingston's garbage collection like? if its anything like Intel's, which is extremely aggressive, it will fudge benchmarking quite a bit. you've to do several before you see consistently high results.

I don't know what you mean by garbage collection? How can I tell?

Thanks
John

johnc24 · 11-01-2012 3:15pm

Hi all

This test was completed with the two above mentioned programs

I attached the link as I seem to be unable to embed the image. Sorry for the extra step folks.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/266john/6679117625/

Looks decent I guess, what do you think? Would you invest in a sata 3.0 PCI expansion card @ €30?

Serephucus · 11-01-2012 3:24pm

Never mind, the link I posted in fixing yours doesn't want to work either.

Anyway, that benchmark looks much better. At this point you're limited by the SATA2 port.

johnc24 · 11-01-2012 3:32pm

Serephucus wrote: »

Never mind, the link I posted in fixing yours doesn't want to work either.

Anyway, that benchmark looks much better. At this point you're limited by the SATA2 port.

The link works for me Serephucus. Yes I was thinking after those benchmarks the limiting device would be the SATA2.

I might get the SATA3 expansion card in a couple of weeks.

As always thanks again for your contributions everyone.

Unregistered. · 11-01-2012 10:50pm

johnc24 wrote: »

Would you invest in a sata 3.0 PCI expansion card @ €30?

Nope. That's a decent enough score. You could try changing the driver from MS to Intel to squeeze out a few more points on AS-SSD.

Serephucus · 11-01-2012 10:53pm

Unregistered. wrote: »

Nope. That's a decent enough score. You could try changing the driver from MS to Intel to squeeze out a few more points on AS-SSD.

He has a SATA3 drive. 525/475 or something like that. A SATA3 card would be huge benefit.

Unregistered. · 11-01-2012 11:03pm

Serephucus wrote: »

He has a SATA3 drive. 525/475 or something like that. A SATA3 card would be huge benefit.

Nawhhh.... Not really. Sure, the benchmark will show you higher numbers. The machine won't boot any faster though. Neither will the games loading or opening Firefox with a million tabs.

Serephucus · 11-01-2012 11:06pm

*Shrug* For the sake of €20, I'd double my boot drive's speed.

Unregistered. · 11-01-2012 11:07pm

Serephucus wrote: »

*Shrug* For the sake of €20, I'd double my boot drive's speed.

€30. Six Pints (10 if you're lucky

). Or 40 bottles of Miller. I think I'd rather have the alcohol.

Serephucus · 11-01-2012 11:10pm

Unregistered. wrote: »

€30. Six Pints (10 if you're lucky ). Or 40 bottles of Miller. I think I'd rather have the alcohol.

A true Dub. :P

Monotype · 12-01-2012 9:34am

It won't open your firefox any faster but any time there's large amounts of reading - opening photoshop, booting windows, you'd notice it alright. It's not an urgent upgrade as you still enjoy the best benefits of the SSD which is the low latency, but you're not getting the best out of it either. I'd say to keep it has a highish priority upgrade and get it next time you or a friend is ordering stuff so it's not burdening you further with postage costs.

Unregistered. · 12-01-2012 3:10pm

Monotype wrote: »

large amounts of reading - opening photoshop, booting windows

Bad example. Neither of them do large amount of *sequential* reading. The biggest improvement is when reading large files into memory or better again SSD to SSD file transfers would see a huge benefit in going from SATA2 speeds to SATA3. OP will be disappointed when he benchmarks how fast Windows opens with and without SATA3 to find it made no difference.

johnc24 · 12-01-2012 3:58pm

Unregistered. wrote: »

You could try changing the driver from MS to Intel to squeeze out a few more points on AS-SSD.

How would I go about doing that please?

johnc24 · 12-01-2012 7:38pm

http://www.msi.com/product/mb/P55A-GD65.html#/?div=Driver&os=All

From this page and the HyperX SSD what would be the best driver? Assuming more than one might be applicable, im not sure...

Unregistered. · 13-01-2012 2:14am

johnc24 wrote: »

http://www.msi.com/product/mb/P55A-GD65.html#/?div=Driver&os=All

From this page and the HyperX SSD what would be the best driver? Assuming more than one might be applicable, im not sure...

Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver. Not the floppy one, the one at the end. Run it, install, restart, bench. See if it makes a difference.

In AS-SSD, the box on the top left will show "iaStor" where it says "msahci" now.

johnc24 · 13-01-2012 4:49am

I was tinkering with a tiny overclock last night.

I increased the base clock up to 175MHz and a multiplier of 21.

CPU-Z shows 3.6Ghz but my Voltage is 1.4V - Is that a little high?

Speedfan shows the CPU a little hot but I don't think its too high, What do you think?

I will run a Prime 95 test now for a few hours - I'll be home about 1330.

Here are the temps and CPU-Z results screenshot

http://www.flickr.com/photos/266john/6688094401/

**With Prime 95 running the CPU at 100% the temps have averages around 90-95C**

Off to work I go, talk to you all later.

SSD Speed from HyperX

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